Marlene & Co

I have had the pleasure of working with Tara and Jean to design the cabinetry plans for our home. We did the entire house top to bottom with 5 baths, kitchen, pantry, bar and laundry room. Aside from their team being able to achieve our design aesthetic, they managed so many various hurdles. From covid delays, to the miscellaneous building issues, the team was able to mitigate all of the issues and deliver an outstanding product. I would highly recommend this team to anyone looking to engage with a cabinetry company.

Our experience with The Cabinetry was excellent. Tara took the time to listen and understand our needs and our desires, and put together our dream kitchen and bathroom and we couldn't be happier! We love the design that was created and we never would have come up with it on our own, but it's exactly what we were looking for. The process from the moment we first connected with Tara until the project was completed was very smooth. Tara was incredibly attentive and responsive to all of our inquiries and coordinated and managed everything for us. We HIGHLY recommend The Cabinetry and Tara - you will not be disappointed!

Highly Recommend & Will Use Again! We were originally referred to The Cabinetry by our Architect. I met Marlene and hired the team on the spot to help with a Master Bath renovation. All went well so we hired again for a much bigger Kitchen Renovation! I worked closely with Tara who was professional, friendly and patient but also loved the team work and open communication with everyone in the office. The entire team was creative, extremely professional, great listeners and helped with every detail. We had a great overall experience with everyone including Marlene, Tara, Jean, Claudia (and Linda, who we previously worked with on another property). Overall Great Team & Pleasure to work with!

Beautiful work, were totally up to a big challenge. Professional from start to finish...The Cabinetry women are so lovely to work with!

I am thrilled with our new kitchen. The Cabinetry made everything so much easier- they have a great selection of products, so we could pick out the cabinets, the handles, backsplash, and counter all together. And they are very quick to respond to phone calls/questions. Wish all my contractors were as customer attentive. Thank you so much.

Jean and Tara were great to work with. They made our kitchen redo so much less stressful as a result of their recommendations and attention to detail. When it came to choosing cabinets, tiles, appliances, flooring etc., we valued Jean and Tara's opinion in making final decisions. They listened to what we wanted to see in our new kitchen and added great suggestions throughout the process. We love our new space and highly recommend the Cabinetry for your kitchen remodel!

I worked with the Cabinetry on my kitchen and bathroom remodels. I was very happy with how Emily designed the space which included kitchen, dining room, mudroom, breakfast nook and an adjacent closet! Her eye for detail was outstanding, she's an expert with layout and even hid our clutter (my special request). The cabinets, counters, hardware were all great quality with several choices of design and finish. She was there for every last detail and answered all of my questions with eager professionalism.

Fabulous job from start to finish!! Loved their thoughtful suggestions and collaboration with my vision. We are so happy with our kitchen! Extremely thorough and great communication throughout the project!

We hired The Cabinetry for our new kitchen and it was the best decision we made during our house renovation! Our cabinets are beautiful and the layout is just what we were looking to accomplish. We had several design meetings and Tara and Marlene offered suggestions in a way that never made us feel pressured. Once we made our choices, the back-end of the project was seamless. They measured at different points, communicated with our GC directly, and stepped in to make sure our kitchen was perfect when other parts of our renovation were stalled. True professionals!

We worked with The Cabinetry designing our kitchen and baths in our new home. Marlene and her team (especially Tara!) were great to work with. They made the process easy. The kitchen they created is the centerpiece of our home. It's the first thing that everyone comments on when entering through the door.

The Cabinetry was instrumental in making our kitchen remodel an amazing experience. We are so excited about the finished product! The ideas their team brought to the design table were extremely helpful, and their willingness to incorporate our needs made the whole process that much easier.

We are excited to give a great review of Marlene Ketchen and her design team at The Cabinetry who made our dream of a new kitchen a reality. She and her team are ‘THE BEST’ and we’ll tell you why!!!! We evaluated two local kitchen designers and based on discussion about our vision during initial meetings, each provided us with an initial design. Out of the gate, Marlene's was outstanding. She met with us several times to understand how we intended to use the kitchen and asked us all the right questions. We are both good cooks, we love to cook and entertain, and we wanted a highly functional chef’s kitchen fully decked out. She and her team worked with us through several iterative designs as each area in the kitchen had special considerations. Not only did the final design create an amazing kitchen space with beautiful, high quality cabinetry and granite counter tops; she and her team worked through the finest details. Their special attention and considerations were given to maximize the flow, use, utility and usability of each area of the kitchen, the flow of moving around in the kitchen, the width of walkways; and with all the right sized and placed working and entertaining surface spaces, the storage volume required, and integrating all the new built-in Sub-Zero toys. She introduced us to her 3D drawing capability that showed the CAD drawings and kitchen layout as if it were complete. It was amazing to see everything depicted in real space and was a huge benefit when making selections and decisions. You’d be surprised how much 6 or 12 inches can make ALL the difference. One major constraint of our project was the need to accommodate a steel column and beams to support the original 2nd floor structure. Marlene and team spent painstaking time to verify the details and seamlessly integrated their design with the architect of the project; actually leading the team to the exact placement of the column to accommodate her overall design. Throughout the process, she worked tirelessly with the builder to guarantee the success of her vision and related onsite construction changes. Marlene appreciated our desire to maintain a clean, bright visual space with layers of details while perfectly balancing the positioning of the islands under an eyebrow barrel ceiling, centered alignment with the rear wall refrigerator with flanking cabinets, counter tops, and lighted cabinets. Her attention to symmetry really brought life to the space. A key feature of Marlene and her services is to listen and incorporate client desires where possible. Marlene does not upsell, she holds true to the position that only the client upsells themselves. She provided us with a wide range of design features and options that would work great in the design, but had different cost implications. We worked collaboratively with her and the team to evaluate the options and then we made our choices … and several times we loved upselling ourselves with premium selections. This trait is very comforting for a client intent on managing costs while balancing desired special premium design features. Another key feature of Marlene and her team is listening to the client and making their vision a reality. She was flawless in incorporating our vision of a coffee station unlike others. In doing so, she has created a grounding feature on one side of the kitchen that provides a “statement” furniture piece that is a functional for coffee, built-in ice maker and wine storage, and general appliance/pot storage. Definitely Unique! Her team spent hours on the finer details and layout of the kitchen items. Attention to these details assured us everything would fit easily in the drawers and cabinets. She and her team walked us through the purpose of every drawer, every cabinet, and noted what the contents and the use were going to be. She even accommodated our 'junk' drawer in the design. Does everyone have one where all those bits and bobs, a screwdriver, pens, rubber bands, a battery or two end up? It's the little things as well as the big that make good become great. Overall, the design is perfect and balanced. Marlene and her team’s attention to the details from the hood and corbel designs, hidden spaces to maximize use, to the style, shape, size and positioning of the pulls on each paneled appliance and every cabinet and drawer door was very important to create the beautiful, high quality, seamless, integrated, and balanced design, yet functional and elegant. Marlene's recommendations to go with 2 color tones of cabinets and 2 different granites each with a purpose was progressive and the results show her exceptional design talent; truly stunning. The layout and coloration drives emphasis and focus to the center entertaining and ‘hot’ islands while balanced with the complementary, unimposing surround cabinetry and serene granite surfaces. It was a pleasure to work with Marlene and her team. They made the project exciting and fun. We now have a richer understanding of the level of complexity and attention to detail required to do a kitchen remodel. We have a true appreciation for the quality of talent and outstanding design expertise and professionalism that Marlene and her team have that was evident in every aspect of the project. We highly recommend Marlene and The Cabinetry design team. They took the time and directed their attention to understanding our vision and objectives, they analyzed our style and understood our cooking methods, were detailed in technical composition, and they guided us with exceptional design expertise to deliver an elegant, stunning, fully functional kitchen that you usually only see in your dreams.